Gonçalves, Elsa; Martins, Antero
Contrary to what usually occurs with other crops, grapevine varieties are mostly landraces
that were domesticated by humans centuries or millennia ago from populations of wild
grapevines (Vitis vinifera ssp. sylvestris). It is logical to assume that domestication was not
been a single, instantaneous act by any of the first farmers but was rather a long succession
of negative mass selections of wild plants, followed by more stringent positive selections
and a final selection of a single initial plant that was destined to become the source of a new
variety
- 20-abr-2012